News tagged with mechanical tension

Testosterone makes us less cooperative and more egocentric, study finds

Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has found. The findings may have implications for how group ...

Medical research Jan 31, 2012 | 4.4 / 5 (11) | 0 |

Enzyme CaM kinase II relaxes muscle cells: Researchers find overactive enzyme in failing hearts

A certain enzyme, the CaM kinase II, keeps the cardiac muscle flexible. By transferring phosphate groups to the giant protein titin, it relaxes the muscle cells. This is reported by researchers led by Prof. ...

Cardiology Jan 17, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0